Ansys CFX vs. aPriori Technologies

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Ansys CFX
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Ansys CFX is a CFD software for turbomachinery applications. The solution helps to shorten development time with streamlined workflows, advanced physics modeling capabilities and accurate results.N/A
aPriori Technologies
Score 8.7 out of 10
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aPriori provides design and sourcing Insights to unlock and identify new opportunities for reducing product cost and carbon footprint, optimizing manufacturing and supply chain risk, and improving design engineering and sourcing teams’ productivity. Their automated Insights Platform is used to reduce time to market, meet sustainability targets, and accelerate revenue growth. What are Manufacturing Insights? aPriori’s Manufacturing Insights Platform simulates each step of the…N/A
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aPriori Technologies
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aPriori is more or less an automated and self-driven tool. It uses data in VPE, logic, and constraints in the cost model to give the cost. If CAD model is there, it makes your job easy. It is possible to estimate the cost of 1000s of parts with one click using bulk costing …
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The traditional aPriori software is evaluated in terms of support and confidence of transactional itemsets than MATLAB.
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I haven't used any other costing tool apart from aPriori so far, but I've heard tools like GeneralCOST Estimator are also available in the market for costing.
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It was not my decision to have aPriori in our company, but I do agree with this decision because the last software used was less precise than aPriori in its reports.
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The way the program has the capabilities to read the CAD model and creates a route to process the part is amazing, and the help support center is incredible.
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Currently, we have not evaluated any other software since aPriori gives most of the things that we want. The kind of reports it gives has enormous information which is used in the discussions & for concrete decisions. Mostly the cost outliers are easy to identify if we take the …
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I have not used other similar , but this feel that aPriori is highly effective for agility and improving the speed, along with innovative reporting.

  • aPriori shares reports in innovative way. It uses cost insight where we can analyze the report and share stake-holders much more …
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aPriori is covering a lot of different processes instead of being an expert in only one. It can read geometric [information] directly from the CAD file so there's no need for manual entry or the risk of a mistake that comes with that. It provides data in a lot of different …
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We needed much more customization for our business needs, and this software provided the greatest potential for future expansion. The ease of use with the application was also a driving factor. We have groups located across the globe, speaking many different native languages. …
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We needed a fully customizable tool that was based on a database platform. Others we used did not allow this for us.
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User Ratings
Ansys CFXaPriori Technologies
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Usability
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Support Rating
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
Ansys CFXaPriori Technologies
Likelihood to Recommend
The simulations obtained are very advanced, showing great results in the movement of fluids in the different states of which it is required to obtain an understanding of their movement dynamics. I obtained impressive and illustrative results of the thermodynamic properties that occur in said flow. Ansys CFX is an easy solution for doing multiple different types of analyses.
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From my experience aPriori is a classical algorithm in data mining. It is used for mining frequent itemsets and relevant association rules. Also, it is devised to operate on a database containing a lot of transactions, for instance, items brought by customers in a store. Whereas aPriori requires high computation if the itemsets are very large and the minimum support is kept very low and the entire database needs to be scanned.
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Pros
  • The GUI of Ansys CFX is pleasing to the eye and at the same time user friendly, making it a lot easier to identify the required fields.
  • The numerical scheme is based on Finite Volume Methods. It supports multi-phase flows with no mass transfer.
  • In the Ansys CFX, adaptive networking can be used for GGI interfaces and single domains without restricted physics.
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  • Give visibility to cost really quickly
  • Be able to benchmark other regions of the world or other process/equipment that can be used to do the same part
  • Easily visualize the Geometric Cost Drivers that are more important
  • GIve some hints on where to work to get the cost down
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Cons
  • One thing which I think they can do is provide flexibility to the user to modify the stuff inside the black box
  • Sometimes the errors can be confusing. The geometry of design and meshing is sometimes troublemaking.
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  • Dynamic itemset counting technique can add new candidate itemsets at any marked start point of the database during the scanning of the database.
  • The transaction reduction method reduces the number of transactions scanned in interactions. The transactions which do not contain frequent items are marked removed.
  • The sampling method picks a random sample from the database for frequent itemset. It may be possible to lose a global frequent itemset.
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Likelihood to Renew
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  • Not to Lose the Position of Product Cost Management Importance
  • Make Costing Simple and Ease
  • Traceablitlity of Previous Costed
  • Helps Design Engineers to actually look for the Which Feature contributes for the Most Cycle Time and help Design Engineers to re-design the CAD Model and look for the changes in the Cycle Time and the Machining parameters
  • Interactive Cost Insight
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Usability
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Rating is due to below exciting factors which one can feel when we use aPriori;
  • Cost engineer need to know "What the part "Should" cost?" instantly.
  • One need to understand the cost in various Process group such as casting, forging, machining, additive manufacturing,etc...
  • One need to have comparison of various process group in single window
  • Ease of finding cost for various location for various currency in single platform
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Support Rating
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Overall, I'm generally satisfied with the response and results that I get from aPriori support. They are intuitive, and try to understand what it is I'm trying to do, or how the problem is affecting me or my organization. They also are very available across the globe, as my team is located in multiple regions.
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Implementation Rating
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aPriori team helped a lot for the implementation, as they were on remote and helping for the file run and implementing the same on remote. aPriori team extrended full support for the implementation resolving the bottleneck and bugs if any during installing the software's also, they provide professional services in order to resolve some technical issue
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Alternatives Considered
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Currently, we have not evaluated any other software since aPriori gives most of the things that we want. The kind of reports it gives has enormous information which is used in the discussions & for concrete decisions. Mostly the cost outliers are easy to identify if we take the parts of a particular supplier. The analysis can be used to provide insight for resourcing etc., which gives good savings for the company.
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Return on Investment
  • The interface of Ansys CFX is much neater than Ansys Fluent. I found it much easier to define materials and boundaries in Ansys CFX. Also, this will allow me to get much more accurate results compared to a simples Thermal transient analysis
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  • It helps decrease our time to market. So more projects are done than before.
  • Being quick to give a quote to a customer is a business advantage. Customers know they can rely on Soucy to get a quick quote. First in gets the business.
  • No time spent on concepts that are too expensive anyway!
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